As do most people who are interested in the markets, I keep
the television in my office tuned to CNBC ,
with the volume mooted, throughout the trading day. As you might guess, today’s CNBC
broadcast day has featured frequent break-ins to show us pictures of limos and limo-like
SUVs (Modern day pols can’t be seen in good old Cadillacs or a Lincolns; no
sir. So they deck out GMC Yukons or Ford
Expeditions just like limos, at probably a far higher cost, to avoid the
appearance of spending lavishly on themselves.
These are people of the people, don’t you know?) pulling into or out of
the White House. These photos are
accompanied by breathless headlines, or spoken accounts, of various
self-important personages making progress, or not making progress, on the debt
limit/government shutdown negotiations.
It finally hit me after about the third of these pointless
reports…these patheticos in Washington
have to be basking, rejoicing, reveling in this attention, achieving near
orgasmic ecstasy from the notion that the world and the world’s markets are
focused on them, and nearly only them, today.
It wouldn’t be too much of a leap to think that these pediculous
popinjays and poltroons are prolonging this parlous prestidigitation simply to
prolong their moment in the sun of unceasing attention. These ultimate narcissists are doing what
narcissists do best…primp and preen for the attention of everyone around them.
These purportedly pervicacious politicasters don’t even care
if the populace’s well warranted contempt for them grows with each passing
moment that this “crisis” (See today’s other post, THE DEBT CEILING “CRISIS” AND THE CREDIT CARD ANALOGY.) continues;
everyone is looking at them! Everyone
notices them! Someone is actually
paying attention to them! And isn’t
that the whole reason for their miserable existences?
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